pxbdsim1

Usage

Overview

Birth-death tree simulator.

Options

-e, --extant=INT

number of extant species, alt to time

-t, --time=DOUBLE

timespan of simulation (age of root), alt to extant

-b, --birth=DOUBLE

birth rate, default=1

-d, --death=DOUBLE

death rate, default=0

-n, --nreps=INT

number of replicates, default=1

-s, --showextinct

show lineages that went extinct, default=false

-x, --seed=INT

random number seed, clock otherwise

-v, --verbose

print per-tree simulation summary (to cerr)

-o, --outf=FILE

output file, STOUT otherwise

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-V, --version

display version and exit

-C, --citation

display phyx citation and exit

Citation

Brown, Joseph W., Joseph F. Walker, and Stephen A. Smith. 2017. Phyx: phylogenetic tools for unix. Bioinformatics 33(12): 1886-1888. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx063.